Much like feeling good the other 364 days of the year, making the most of New Year’s Eve can be as simple as taking some cues from our four-legged friends, which is why we're turning the blog over to our very own Sir Winston Napoleon for his take on how we can use nutrition, sleep, hydration, and movement to prepare for and recover from our New Year's Eve celebrations.

Our bodies need carbohydrates during intense physical activity; unfortunately, our bodies cannot store all the carbs we need for endurance training or events. That’s where carb supplementation comes in! Athletes, particularly endurance athletes, have been working to find the best way to fuel their bodies for decades. Swedish company Maurten developed a way to encapsulate high concentrations of carbohydrates in hydrogels, allowing the body to better tolerate and absorb them and giving endurance athletes the energy they need to truly reach their potential during training and events.

Happy National Avocado Day! If you’re not already on the avocado train, consider this your formal invitation to climb aboard. You’ve likely heard that avocados are a superfood, which is just another way to say that they contain a lot of nutrients and they’re beneficial to a person’s overall health when eaten regularly. Here are three delicious recipes featuring avocado!